Sentence examples for for their own subsistence from inspiring English sources

Both cultivators and pastoralists produce primarily for their own subsistence, and only small surpluses are available for trade.

Besides growing crops for their own subsistence, the Luguru export produce to local towns and to Dar es-Salaam.

Each year they have the right to harpoon three whales for their own subsistence diet, and the town was giddy with celebration.

Residents are permitted limited hunts for their own subsistence, but Aldenira Queiroz, an agency director, said the quantity indicated "a large-scale commercial operation," which was illegal.

But in spite of its impressive geographic reach, cassava has remained a crop grown largely by marginal farmers, often for their own subsistence rather than for economic gain.

It remained roughly what the Revolution had made it: a great mass of peasants comprising three-fourths of the population about half of them working owners of their farms or sharecroppers and the other half with too little land for their own subsistence and hiring themselves out as labourers.

Several indigenous people also spoke on Tuesday in favour of their own subsistence hunting, which is allowed under commission rules.

Few households produce enough crops to cover even their own subsistence, let alone to sell on the market.

During most of human history, households and tribes largely lived on their own subsistence economy; their connections to one another and the outside world were tenuous and intermittent.

Most mercantilists, confident that any number of people would be able to produce their own subsistence, had no worries about harmful effects of population growth.

In Ivory Coast, for example, where a collapse in the cocoa market and thus the nation's economy has driven thousands of people into informal work, the World Bank is appropriating $500,000 to make small low-interest loans to help people buy tools, sewing machines and other equipment needed to start their own subsistence businesses.